Pharis Romero on coming back to your roots

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Transcription

“I moved back to Horsefly ten years ago, after leaving for about 15 years or so. I moved down to Vancouver Island, to Victoria, to go to school, and spent a lot of years there. Played a lot of music. Bunch of bands. Bunch of different jobs. And when I came back to Horsefly, I realized that the placement of being in Horsefly, especially considering that I wanted to have children with my husband, and the idea that my children would be sixth generation Horsefly was very appealing to me, because I feel like one of the things that’s happened to so many of us is that we feel dissociated as far as community and our sense of place and our sense of empathy for both people and the land that we live on. So to give myself that and to give my children that by coming back to the place where I was born, so it’s very amazing.”